Salt explores the complexities of the still young Trinidad where the roles of slave and land-owner still linger. Earl Lovelace is one of the pre-eminent novelists of the Caribbean, and in this novel he questions the nature of liberty and nationhood.
SALT is an extraordinary tour de force by one of the pre-eminent literary presences in the Caribbean, a novel which explores like none before it the intermingling of cultures that is the contemporary West Indian experience.